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Blundering Intruders: Extraneous Impacts on Two Indigenous Food Systems
Indigenous communities commonly face a major impediment in their ongoing efforts to participate effectively in the stewardship and sustainable management of their traditional lands, waters and resources. Externally driven ...
Local people see and care most? Severe depletion of inshore fisheries and its consequences for Māori communities in New Zealand
Overfishing has the potential to adversely affect the ecological stability, economic value, social and spiritual integrity of a given area. Of these contexts, relatively little emphasis in literature is placed on the social ...
Austral seabirds: challenges and opportunities for research and conservation
This paper draws together the themes of papers on procellariiform biology contained within this special issue of the Papers and Proceedings ofthe Royal Society ofTasmania which is a tribute to Irynej Skira. The role of ...
Estimating and Correcting for Bias in Population Assessments of Sooty Shearwaters
We investigated the precision and accuracy of an infrared burrowscope for detecting sooty shearwater (Pufffinus griseus) chicks at 13 plots from 3 islands in southern New Zealand in 2003. We partially excavated burrows ...
Biocultural conservation of marine ecosystems: Examples from New Zealand and Canada
Place-specific knowledge systems, combined with hands-on resource use and a long-term commitment to sustaining resources and ecosystems, are vitally important in restoring the planet to health. This approach is already an ...
Reduction of bias when estimating bird abundance within small habitat fragments
We used the distance detection function from five-minute point counts entirely within large woody vegetation patches to derive a method of truncating counts of birds detected close to the observer to estimate their relative ...
Looking after your ground: resource management practice by Rakiura Maori Titi harvesters
The annual harvest of Titi, Puifinus griseus, on islands adjacent to Rakiura (Stewart Island) by Rakiura Maori is one of the last large-scale customary uses of native wildlife in New Zealand. This study investigates whether ...
The Dimensional Landscape Model: Exploring Differences in Expressing and Locating Landscape Qualities
Landscape quality assessments provide information for developers, decision-makers and designers as to what is significant about a given landscape. However, assessment methods that rely on disciplinary expertise can fail ...
Guidelines for cross‐cultural Participatory Action Research partnerships: A case study of a customary seabird harvest in New Zealand
Adaptive co‐management and Participatory Action Research (PAR) promotes social ecological resilience by simultaneously protecting wildlife and its habitat and promoting capacity and motivation for sustainable harvest ...
Effects of organic farming, fencing and vegetation origin on spiders and beetles within shelterbelts on dairy farms
Spiders and beetles provide important ecosystem services in agriculture; however, optimum strategies to promote their density and diversity on dairy farms have received little attention. This study aimed to quantify the ...